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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 585

June 24, 20034 counties in Minnesota; 4 counties in North Dakota; 24 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT for 4 counties in Minnesota; 4 counties in North Dakota; 24 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties

Big Stone County, MN, Clay County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Dickey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Beadle County, SD, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Hyde42 min
Jun 24, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHyde37 min
Jun 24, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay, Marshall50 min
Jun 24, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington45 min
Jun 24, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBuffalo, Hand26 min
Jun 24, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall, Roberts35 min
Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand30 min
Jun 24, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle40 min
Jun 24, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark, Hamlin49 min
Jun 24, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFGFRichland44 min
Jun 24, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBeadle46 min
Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark60 min
Jun 24, 9:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRBrown115 min
Jun 24, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark51 min
Jun 24, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBeadle, Kingsbury30 min
Jun 24, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington38 min
Jun 24, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFSargent47 min
Jun 24, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBeadle, Kingsbury32 min
Jun 24, 9:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRClark, Codington, Hamlin3 hr
Jun 24, 9:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFSargent8 hr
Jun 24, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRLyman40 min
Jun 24, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMellette, Todd40 min
Jun 24, 10:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFWilkin8 hr
Jun 24, 11:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRTraverse6 hr
Jun 24, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClay39 min
Jun 24, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClay50 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2003-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 728 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2003-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
728 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
552 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 7:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Carver and 31 more66 min
Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 35 more6 hr
Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCottonwood, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and 2 more5 hr
Jun 24, 9:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Stone, Clay, Traverse, Wilkin83 min
Jun 24, 10:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago and 31 more93 min
Jun 24, 10:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Jackson, Martin and 7 more5 hr
Jun 25, 12:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFillmore, Houston, Winona113 min
Jun 25, 11:38 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Faribault, Freeborn and 15 more2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.